Tuesday 27 November 2012

Buy pellet stoves Or Not

Well, let's talk about pros and cons of wood pellet stoves.
  • Pellet stoves are very efficient with 75% to 90% efficiency, and have a BTU output content four to five times higher than cord wood or wood chips.
  • Pellet stoves provide a history of 90% over-all proficiency rating. Their BTU output is 4 to five times greater as compared with a lot of wood stove types. In addition, the particulate emission is really nominal in comparison with EPA-approved wood stoves.
  • Pellet stoves have very low particulate emissions as well. Moreover, there is no smoke created from a pellet stove.
  • Furthermore, for people who have no fireplace or chimney, pellet stoves are the best alternative, as they can often be vented through a small hole in the wall, rather than a whole chimney.
  • Pellet stoves are cheap to run, very easy to set up.
  • Pellet stoves venting system is far cheaper than that of a log burner.
  • Pellet stove requires a lot less time for refuelling.
  • At last, pellet stoves do not require a huge storage area. They can be bought in a shop-filled sack and stored away in a cupboard for when the time comes to use them.
For the cons, namely the disadvantages of pellet stoves are as following:
  • Pellet stoves are more expensive than common wood stoves.
  • Most pellet stoves require electricity.
  • Pellet stoves also require pellets.
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Tuesday 6 November 2012

Decorate The Wood Stove for The Christmas Day

How do you spend the Halloween Day? Do you decorate your house for it? If no, don't feel regretful. The Christmas Day is your second chance to do that. More than a month later, it is the The Christmas Day. How do you plan to decorate your house.

If you have a wood stove to heat up the room, you can decorate it and this can bring a sense of warmth and coziness to a space. Here're some opinions and suggestions on how to decorate the wood stove for the Christmas Day.

First and foremost, make sure that your wood burner is off and cleaned. Heavy decorations will look good placed on top of a wood burning stove.

You can paint the wood stove. Paiting the stove as you like.

For the chimney, decorate it with a green wreath containing plenty of red berries and the odd silver ribbon. Stockings waiting for Santa to fill them can also look good attached to the chimney breast.

And, if you know for certain that you are not going to be using your log burning stove over the festive period, then you could place decorations actually inside the stove itself. For example, you could place some fruits, fresh nuts, sweetbox in it, so that they are visible to guests who should be encouraged to help themselves.

Use garland to decorate the chimney. Stick with one or two colors. People tend to go overboard with so many Christmas colors to choose from. You can also hang your stockings on the chimney, so coordinate your garland with those.

Another nice touch for Christmas Day is to place coloured candles on pretty holders on top of your stove. Be careful that you don't burn or melt any ornaments.

Except for the above opinions, you also can do following things for your multifuel stoves:

You can put plants near the wood stove.

You can add shelves or pictures.

You can paint the wall.

What You Can Use Your Wood Stove to Do